More from St-Germain-de-Confolens this week. I should explain that the village’s main (effectively only) street runs more or less north to south alongside the Charente river. In practical terms that means that on sunny afternoons the shadows can be quite harsh. However, I think the doors are still worth looking at.

This door’s obviously still in use:

Unlike this one, opposite, of a closed-down restaurant…

…which echoes the colours of the building that houses the Post Office. The modern door doesn’t have a lot to say for itself, but I like the strong geometric shape of the security grilles:

Finally, my favourite of this week’s bunch – gloriously decrepit, with the finishing touch of a rose growing next to it:

St-Germain-de-Confolens is yet another pretty little village that’s only a twenty minute drive from here at Tranquility Base (we’re surrounded by them, but who’s complaining?), although it’s in a different département – Charente as opposed to Haute-Vienne.

Effectively, it’s just one street that runs parallel to the Charente river. However, the doors are interesting and there are enough of them to need two instalments to dispay here.

You need to be careful stepping out of this one:

These two are actually next to each other in real life, as it were:

In this one, I like that the gateway echoes the shape of the door behind it:

The door’s okay in this one, but I was particularly drawn to the tatty shutter on the window at top left:

And finally for this week, you can’t help wondering if there’s a secret garden behind this little door:

The sceptic in me can’t help feeling that this lady and her dog (oh, and the lace parasol) were artfully posed on the riverbank – with a very grand chateau in the background, by the way – purely for photographic purposes. Anyway, I think it makes a pleasing image for this week’s challenge.